Laurent Lecointre

He published a speech in Le Défenseur de la Constitution (n°5) On September 15, 1792, he proposed that the dauphin and his sister were separated from their parents.

After the defection of Dumouriez in April 1793, Count Louis-Auguste Juvénal des Ursins d'Harville became suspect and was arrested at the request of Lecointre.

The day of the ceremony of the Cult of the Supreme Being on 8 June 1794, he and Barras called Maximilien de Robespierre a tyrant and feared for their lives before 9 Thermidor.

[citation needed] Lecointre, the instigator of the coup, that led to the Fall of Robespierre, contacted Robert Lindet on the 6th, and Vadier on the 7th Thermidor.

Eight prominent Montagnards were arrested including Amar, Leonard Bourdon, Cambon, René Levasseur, Maignet, Lecointre and Thuriot.

Portrait of Laurent Lecointre a radical French politician.